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  • Hand-Made

    ALLEGRO005

    Artist: Wojciech Staroniewicz

    Label: Allegro Records

    Performed by: Wojciech Staroniewicz - saxophones; Cezary Paciorek - accordion; Maciej Grzywacz - guitar; Piotr Lemanczyk - bass; Tomasz Sowinski - drums

    Recorded at Studio Chrust, Sulejowek, Poland

    This time Wojtek has invited exclusively Tricity musicians. "This is very important because thanks to the frequent meetings we can really get some realy creative work done in the rehearsals achieving our own, characteristic sound. Besides, we are really good friends and we truly enjoy playing together. And you can hear all this in the music," says Wojtek. The band plays acoustic jazz performed with a set of instruments untypical of this genre. The combination of the sax, accordion and guitar is quite surprising yet interesting. The repertoire is made up of their own pieces although a large number of standards is present as well as spontaneous improvisation. The music is based on the contemporary grooves even though they play without samples nor a DJ.

  • Karambola

    ALLEGRO001

    Artist: Wojciech Staroniewicz

    Label: Allegro Records

    "Music played by Staroniewicz represents the healthy contemporary jazz, firmly anchored partly in Coltrane and partly in the finest traditions of The Messengers, without a doubt belonging to the Tricity school, which school for years now has been arousing admiration and awe among the members of our society. It is the same school which is associated most of all with Leszek Możdżer's sextet, a school which has grown substantially to place into its orbit many musicians originating from other parts of the world. This school should not however be viewed as just another schism, but as one being founded on universal jazz values. The only thing it rejects a priori is any kind of routine..". (Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski)